Where to Go in January

January across 279 indexable cities in this dataset: 69 average above 24°C, 79 sit between 15°C and 24°C, and 131 sit at 15°C or below. The hottest monthly average is Mombasa at 29.2°C; the coldest is Novosibirsk at -20.1°C.

Rain that month spans 0 mm in Khartoum to 475 mm in Antananarivo. The sample mean temperature is 13.7°C and the sample mean rainfall is 65 mm.

Hemisphere and monsoon in January

Northern-hemisphere cities average 11.2°C in January; southern-hemisphere cities average 24.3°C. That split is the usual summer/winter reversal, not a scoring trick.

Monsoon-type cities that are inside their wet season this month include Mbuji-Mayi, Kananga, Harare, Lusaka, Lubumbashi, Maputo, and 21 more. 71 monsoon-type cities are on the dry side of their year in January.